Analysis of a Hot Spot for DNA Insertion Suggests a Mechanism for Ig Switch Recombination

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 3430-3435

  Baar, Joseph ^a,b   Pennell, Nancy M ^a   Shulman, Marc J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SWITCH REGION; INTRONS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030587815     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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